Apparatus for limbering or unlimbering heavy ordnance.



No. 675,405. Patented June 4, 190:. m. PAUL &. P. 806K.

APPARATUS FOR LIMBEBING 0R UNLIMBERING HEA VY ORDNANGE.

(Application filed Oct. 9, 1900.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 675,405. Patented June 4, 19m. m. PAUL & P. 306K.

APPARATUS rommssmue on UNLWBEBING HEA-VY onnmmcs.

(Application filed Oct. 9, 1900+ (Nu Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

No. 675,405. Patented June 4, I901.

- M. PAUL & P. $06K. APWARATUS FOR LIHBERING 0R UNLHQBEBENG HEAVY ORDNANQE. (N -o Modal.)

(Application filed Oct. 9, 1900.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 3 UNITED f STATES PATENT QrFIcE.

MORITZ PAUL AND PAUL soon, or PILSEN, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Assreno'ns TO SKODAWERKE, AOTIENGESELLSCIIAFT IN rrnsnn rsmnn PLACE.

. APPARATUS FOR LIMBERINQ OR UNLIMBERING HEAVY'ORDNANCE.

SLEGIEIGATION forming art of Letters Patent no.-e75,405,' dated June 4, 1901.

Application filed October 9,1900. Serial No.3?,524. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: on'road-wheels. Figs. 4 and 5 show the lift Be it known that we, MORITZ PAUL and ing device used in combination witlfthis ap- PAUL SOCK, subjects of the Emperor of Aus paratus fora gun transported inz parts.

' tria-Hungary, residing at Pilsen, in the Prov As will be seen, a number offoot-bearings 5 5.

ince of Bohemia, in the Empire of Austria' a are sunk into the ground at the place where Hungary, haveinvented certain new and usethe gun is to be brought into the firing posi ful Improvements in Apparatus for Limbertion. The gun mountedon field-railwfy ing and Unlimbering Heavy Ordnance; and hides or on road-wheels, orwhen it istran'swe do hereby declare the following to be a ported in parts the gun rnountingcalone con- 6o 10 full, clear, and exact description of the innected to or mounted upon the base-plate b,

vention, such as will enable others skilled in 'is run over these foot-bearings. In the basethe art'to which it appertains to make and plate there are arranged in corresponding use the same, reference being had to the acnumber-and positions to the foot-bearings companying drawings, and toletters of refernuts d for receiving screw-spindles f, which 65 once marked thereon, which form a part of when screwed in bear first upon the footthis specificatio'n.- bearings and when further rotated raise the This invention relates to apparatus for engun or the base-plate and gun-mounting from abl-ingordnance which is transported in the field-railway vehicles or road-wheels, so parts or entire" on field-railway vehicles or on that the latter can be run out from below, 7;) wheelsby means of limbers and is mounted and when subsequent-1y rotated in the oppoa on a wooden or iron base-plate or is rigidly site direction allow the base-platebtodescendconnected .thereto'to be easily brought into to the ground, whereupon the spindles can 7 the firingposition and to beagain mounted be removed. When the base plateb rests on on whe'els'for the purpose of transport or to the ground, the foot-bearings a extend into 75 be placed on a field-carriage or a field-railthe recesses g for thenut, so that if the base way vehicle. Apparatus according thereto plate is moved during firing the foot-bearings. comprises, essentially, a number of screwalways remain under the nuts and insure that spindles, each of which has a nut arranged the screw-spindles will bear in the foot-bear in the base-plate and can be inserted into a ings when the gun is again raised for trans 8o foot-bearing sunkinto the ground at the place port, which is effected by a process the redesired, so as to enable the base-plate to be verse of that just described. removed from the field-railway vehicleorfrom \Vhen in the caseof' guns transported in' the. field-carriage and when the latter has parts the base-plate and gun-mounting are'rebeendrawn out enable the base-plate to be moved in the manner hcreiubefore described 85 5 lowered to the ground. For guns transported i from the tieid-railwayvehicles or road-wheels in pieces there'is also provided a lifting deand are'lowered, balks L, which are. connected vice by means of which the trunnions of the together'by distance pipes and screws to form gun-tube can be brought over and lowered a firm supporting-frame, are placed at both into their hearings in the gun-mounting that sides of the carriage and raised to an inclined 90 40 has been lowered to' the ground in the manposition by means of. jacks h, Fig. 4. The

ner hereinbefore described, and the vehicle wheels carrying the gun-tube and the limber carrying the gun-tube can then be removed are then run up on the balk i by means of I therefrom. I jacks or hauling-gear, and as soon as the trun- Apparatus according to this invention is nionsof the gun-tube are located above the 5 5 shown in the accompanying drawings, in trunnion-bearings the balks are lowered unwhichtil the trunnions rest therein. Further 10w- Figure l is a sectional elevation of a gun ering of the balks 'i liberates the road-wheels,

in process of being transferred from a pair of which can then be removed.

railway-trucks to its firing position, andFig. For the 'purpose of transport the parts of I00 2 is a corresponding plan. Fig. 3 is a Viewv the gun mustbe again separated and loaded similar to Fig. 1, representing a gun mounted in parts, and 1n this case the lifting device is first operated and then the apparatus for raising the base-plate, the process being in' reverse order.

' We claim 1. The combination with a gun-mount and jack-screws for raising and lowering the same working in suitable nuts in said mount; of foo't bearings for said jack screws to be sunk in the emplacement for the gun, said footbearings fitting reocsses in the gun-mount when lowered into position for firing, for the purpose set forth. 1

2. The combination of a gun-mount, jackscrews working in suitable nuts in said mount for raising and lowering the same, and footbearings for said screws, sunk in the emplacesition; of means for positioning a gun-carriage with the gun-trunnions above the trunnion-bearings of the mount, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'MORITZ PAUL.

. PAUL SOGK.

Witnesses: Y J OSEF RUBARD, ALVESTO S. HOGUE. 

